Modern cyber attacks

Abstract

This bachelor's thesis deals with contemporary cyber attacks with an emphasis on denial of service attacks. In the theoretical part the thesis focuses on an analysis and description of the cyber attacks. It monitors trends in cyber attacks and also describes generators of denial of service attacks based on software and hardware platform. The practical part uses the information from the theoretical one to design tests of network devices against cyber attacks, their practical realization and a comparison between used cyber attacks. At the very end the thesis offers possible countermeasures against them